Ana

Ana is one of the many Characters in Overwatch and the first to be added to the game after launch. Ana is a long range support, who can offer heals while also dealing tremendous damage with her sniper rifle.

Although she might look like a Defense character, Ana is in fact a support. Her large rifle can both heal and deal damage, and her other abilities are all focused around support actions, like boosting an allies damage or temporarily sleeping enemies. Unlike the other Supportcharacters, Ana requires a precise shot or else your heals won't hit their target.

Biotic Rifle: Ana's rifle shoots darts that can restore health to her allies or deal ongoing damage to her enemies. She can use the rifle's scope to zoom in on targets and make highly accurate shots. Since her heal is tied to such a high percision weapon, you'll need to be a crack shot in order to utilize her well during combat situations.

Sleep Dart: Ana fires a dart from her sidearm, rendering an enemy unconcious. If this enemy is hit while unconcious, they will immediately wake up.

Biotic Grenade: Ana tosses a biotic bomb that deals damage to enemies and heals allies in a small area of effect. Affected allies also receive increased healing from other sources (such as her rifle), while enemies caught in the blast cannot be healed for a few seconds.

Nano Boost (Ultimate): After Ana hits one of her allies with a Nano Boost, they will temporarily move faster, deal more damage and take less damage from enemy attacks. This is a very potent skill, and useful for storming objectives or clearing entrenched enemies.

Don't let her looks fool you, she is a powerful support with incredible team fight versatility. Make sure to utilize Biotic Grenade during teamfights to make your allies heal much faster while your enemies are stuck without any healing at all.

Ana works best with another support, particularly Lucio. Biotic Grenade buffs how much healing a person receives, and since it's an AoE, it can hit your whole team. Combine this with Lucio who has powerful AoE heals, and you can keep your entire team at max health during a team fight with little issue.

Her Ultimate, Nano Boost, works best when you absolutely can't have someone die. Stick this on a Winston or Reinhardt then have them rush the objective. Their increased damage and defense will make them near unkillable, specially if some supports are able to keep up with them.

Although she is a sniper, you don't want to be so removed from fights as to make healing your allies difficult. Consider staying in closer to your team so you have a much higher chance of landing your shots and keeping your allies alive.

One of the founding members of Overwatch, Ana uses her skills and expertise to defend her home and the people she cares for.

As the Omnic Crisis inflicted a heavy toll on Egypt, the country's depleted and undermanned security forces relied on elite snipers for support. Among them was Ana Amari, who was widely considered to be the world's best. Her superior marksmanship, decision-making, and instincts made her a natural selection to join the Overwatch strike team that would end the war.

Following the success of Overwatch's original mission, Ana served for many years as Strike Commander Morrison's second-in-command. Despite her responsibilities in leading the organization, Ana refused to step away from combat operations. She remained on active duty well into her fifties, until she was believed to have been killed during a hostage rescue mission by the Talon operative known as Widowmaker.

In truth, Ana survived that encounter, despite being gravely wounded and losing her right eye. During her recovery, she wrestled with the weight of a life spent in combat, and she chose to stay out of the world's growing conflicts. However, as time passed, she realized she could not sit on the sidelines while people threatened her city and the innocents around her.

Now, Ana has rejoined the fight to protect her country from the forces that would destabilize it, and most importantly, to keep her family and her closest allies safe.